Lydgate's Fall of Princes Edited by Dr. Henry Bergen ... presented to The Early English Text Society by The Carnegie Institution of Washington |
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[How Philitee lost his kyngdom.]
Next thes too kynges, in ordre as ye may see,
To Iohn Bochas gan shewe his presence
The thridde kyng, callid Phelete,
Which bi Fortunys sodeyn violence
Loste his kyngdam, and be cruel sentence
Of Odoacer, the tiraunt merciles,
Loste his liff and cam no mor in pres.
To Iohn Bochas gan shewe his presence
The thridde kyng, callid Phelete,
Which bi Fortunys sodeyn violence
Loste his kyngdam, and be cruel sentence
Of Odoacer, the tiraunt merciles,
Loste his liff and cam no mor in pres.
Thes sodeyn chaunges to reede whan I gan,
Sauh so ofte the wheel turne up & doun
Of Fortune; ther cam oon Marcian,
Of whom is maad non othir mencioun,
Sauff be a sodeyn coniuraceoun
He moordred was, [he] beyng innocent,
Among his knihtis, which slouh hym of assent.
Sauh so ofte the wheel turne up & doun
Of Fortune; ther cam oon Marcian,
Of whom is maad non othir mencioun,
Sauff be a sodeyn coniuraceoun
He moordred was, [he] beyng innocent,
Among his knihtis, which slouh hym of assent.
Than tofor Bochas to shewe[n] his presence
Ther cam oon that callid was Leoun,
Which kauht a title be no violence,
But made his cleym be iust successioun
Afftir his fadir, and took pocessioun,
Which of a Leoun, myn auctour seith the same,
Beyng emperour, bar the same name.
Ther cam oon that callid was Leoun,
Which kauht a title be no violence,
But made his cleym be iust successioun
Afftir his fadir, and took pocessioun,
Which of a Leoun, myn auctour seith the same,
Beyng emperour, bar the same name.
This yonger Leoun, ageyn al trouthe & riht,
Be tirannye, as maad is mencioun,
Thoruh cruel Zeno, that was an hardi kniht,
Was put out of his pocessioun,
Constreyned to lyue in religioun;
But to what ordre that he did[e] weende,
I fynde nat; but ther he made an eende.
Be tirannye, as maad is mencioun,
Thoruh cruel Zeno, that was an hardi kniht,
Was put out of his pocessioun,
Constreyned to lyue in religioun;
But to what ordre that he did[e] weende,
I fynde nat; but ther he made an eende.
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